For many people, Turandot is Puccini’s greatest score, and it’s certainly his most innovative. While continuing his hold on the 19th century Italian opera tradition in conventional arias such as ...

Italian singer Maria Luigia Borsi, as Liu, and French singer Roberto Alagna, as Calaf, perform during a rehearsal of Italian composer Giacomo Puccini's opera ‘Turandot’ in France (AFP/Getty) There was ...

Italy celebrated the inclusion of Italian opera singing on the World Heritage List with a gala concert at the Arena of Verona on Friday night that was broadcast on national television. The concert, ...

But we don’t readily think of Puccini in terms of grand opera, ALL CAPS, unless we narrow our focus to the Italian master’s last work, TURANDOT, the one opera he didn’t live to complete or see ...

At the heart of this important celebratory journey is Turandot, the composer's final and unfinished opera, a symbol of the profound dialogue between East and West and the cultures that have connected ...

This Orientalist classic, left unfinished, has had to be completed since Puccini’s death. A new version hands that task to artists with Asian roots. Puccini’s “Turandot” at the Metropolitan Opera, in ...

What to do about “Turandot”? Washington National Opera has some fresh ideas in Francesca Zambello’s visually and vocally stunning new production, onstage at the Kennedy Center through May 25. Giacomo ...

Washington National Opera has ended its 2023–24 season with an odd revisiting of Giacomo Puccini’s last, unfinished, and, it seems, eternally problematic opera Turandot. Those who sought to buy ...

This Saturday, you can see it free on the Nationals Park jumbotron during the 19th annual “Opera in the Outfield.” “It’s an annual tradition for us,” General Director Timothy O’Leary told WTOP. “It’s ...

They’re striking a chord with the woke crowd. New York City’s famed Metropolitan Opera added a website trigger warning for prospective ticket buyers to Giacomo Puccini’s “Turandot,” informing ...

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